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"vol. xlvi. wisnsboro, s. c,, Wednesday, September 25, i889. ^ ^-m,
tj French physicians ixho are studying the
matter are confident that hypnotism "will1
In time succeed the use of chloroform in;
the practiec of painful surgical opera-'
lions. Many mo3f; remarkable experi-'
ments in this direction have proved sue-'
cessful. Patients have been hypnotized,
B nfld while in that condition undergone;
S operations of the most painful and delicate
nature without evincing sensibility
in the slightest desrec.
/ The Brooklyn Citizen thinks thati
Bhr 'Americans may therefore well be proud1,
Bk of the notice Edison has won, for he is aj
typical American; one of the most inter-j
fwrKno- in n. nfrsf?n:il sense, of his time.;
I and one of the greatest of that type of;
which Franklin stood at the head, whose;
histinetion is in their application of;
great brains to practical things, and theirl
development of strictly material enter-;
prises.
n pr The California civil engineers,T ce^ployed
in surveying the boundary' line
between Nevada and California, have
H about completed tiieir labors, it is re
ported at the lake, on good- authority,'
If, that the line established by Von Schmidt
Wf is a long way cast of that .established by.
the United States surrey, and that the
monument now* marking the boundary
ft between the two States, crected near the
ft itown of Bijou on the Yon Schmidt line,
will be removed west to Meyer's on the
Placerville wagon road, near the foot of
Lake valley. This will give about the
s ? entire area of Lake Tahoe to Nevada.
f.. There were some curious features about
the rec:it revolution at Honolulu,
ft Hawaii. King Kalakaua was informed
by telephone that his palace was invested
by rebels, and by telephone he sent for
his Chamberlain. They spent the day
quietly in a boat-house playing poker.
Meanwhile "Wilcox, the leader of the reK
volt, attired in an Italian uniform, had
B
sheltered himself in a gasoline tank from
which he issued his orders regarding the
eiprrA rvf tlio-nal-i.-vi Ttr/?lvA fif TTalnlrmift'i? i
jwarriors repelled the onslaught of the
6 gasoline hero's myrmidons, and by night-'
fall the farce was ended.
JL ^ * I The stars ir the American flag are get-!
ting so numerous, avers the Detroit Free, !
Press, that to gel them all on medium-;
-?sized bar.ners is difficult. Forty-two;
Hfc Stars rather crowd the little azure field'
[in the corner of the flng. Many means j
!>f remedying this difficulty have been.:
suggested. But it is rather strange that
no one in authority has yet proposed thei
simple remedy of letting the white and;
fed stripes represent the thirteen original!
States, as at first designed by Congress,
and have one star for cach of the twenty-;
nine new states in the union. Twenty-:
r.4-n-~, -r,.:n nr-.-t- *1, ^ A mflwnon 1
1L11UC aittld ?? ILL IXKJO LiUUVl VJUV i.xmvAA^uu
Sag* There will still be room for thei I
future Stytes of New Mexico, Idaho, Ari-|
zona, "Wyoming and Utah. Every State i
will be represented, and no flag will be;
more beautiful, symmetrical or symboli cal
than that which waves over the home,
.of, the brave and *he land of the free.
The South must have the best of
everything that will lend to its economic
W industrial development, and there is
no one thing that can lend more to this
economic development than electricity.
'This marvelous force is the most mobile,
* Convenient and economical agency for
lor tiie distribution 01 energy in tne industrial
world. It has all the virtues of
"both steam and water, without the accompanying
bulkiness, smoke, dust er
noise, and there is nothing in it to explode
or give way. It can be used on
the spot where it is generated, or it can
m be transported twenty miles or more.
K Most important of all to a busy community,
with its numerous small industries,
it costs much less than an equal capacL
ifr nF cfpim An irm-inrffrnf fn/?fnv in
k h is economy is that electricity, unlike
steam, can be used over and over, so to
speak, the same as water can in a mountain
stream.?Menvfaeturcrtf Eecord.
L I There is something suggestive, avers
the Leavenworth (Kan.) Times, in the deliberations
with which the several Indian
tribes arc considering propositions
^ to open their reservations to white set-'
? ners. i ne savages oegm 10 sec ineir rnaBiF
biHty to stay the mighty waves of civilH
ization which are rolling westward as the
15tar of Empire leads the way of progress
in that direction, and rather than be
-overwhelmed by the rush of thousands
-seeking homes there, and involved in
bloody conflicts against unequal numbers,
Wkr ihey are-ready to sell their lands and
yield-io the inevitable sure to follow in
P - the absorpt ion 01 the race. Whenever '
r counsel can he givsn to ir.tiuence tne jlh
clians to adopt this course the admonition
will be in the interest of peace and the
! v ' safety of person on the prairie. The red
oman must now be absorbed, not exterminated.
He unu-t be accepted and
treated as a fellow-citizen and a brother,
*>n/l ni.,it.,. iin/ln!'?tnn<l Viic
business rights rani how to maintain
^ them. Under such a policy all Indian
Territory wiii he made to inure to the
highest possible benefits for the Indians.
The wise men among- the tribes see this;
and their counsels are -winning their
^ j brethren to the adoption of a course' that
wnll bring tncm nearer m business reiav
tions and social intercourse to white men
|- than they ever were since the discovery
of the country by the bold Norseman
iaarines. , .
f
THR01JGH_ DIXIE.
SUMMARY OF SOUTHERN HEWS
Happenings of Snecial Importance Prom
Virginia to the Lone Star State.
NOBTH CAEOLDTA.
Governor Daniel G. Fowle, In view of
the lynching at Morganton, has issued
a proclamation enjoining .all officers to
energetically exert themselves to arrest
and bring to justice these offenders
against society.
Beginning with January, 1S00, a
course of lectures will be given at Trinity
College, on railroads and railroad
problems.
Ex-Governor Thomas J. Jarvis has
declined to accept the presidency of the
North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical
College, to which he was recentlv
elected. He savs his sole reason
for declining is that he does not feel
qualified for a proper discharge of the
duties incident to the position.
Louisburg opened its tobacco market
on an elaborate scale. Two | mammoth
new warehouses just built there held
an opening sale and over five hundred
wagon loads of tobacco found ready sale.
Prominent tobacco men from all over the
State, attended.
The authorities of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad met at Raleigh and
passed resolutions for the erection of a
$50,000 Union Passenger depot on the
capital city of the Old North State.
jl ne directors 01 tne j*aieig.u ;tuu uusiuu
then met and agreed to the proposition.
The new depot will be erected at an
early date.
Work on the new cotton factory at
Raleigh has "been bogun. The factory
starts with a capital' stock of $100,000,
but it is learned that the amount will
probably be increased.
SOUTH 0AB0LDTA.
A novel and unusual procession passed
through Greenville. It was a covered
wagon drawn by two oxeD, a mule aud
horse, antf hitched to the back ot the
wagon were two cows. The owner, W.
H. Blanton was a returning pilgrim from
Arkansas going to his old home in Union
county. He left Arkansas in April last
with has four children, and has travelled
in this manner all the way through the
country, camping and living in the
wagor. He has made five stops to work
for persons in order to get money to push
on his Jong journey. Two other families,
al?o going to Union county from
Arkansas, are on the road travelling iu
the same style. Two children died on
the way.
A charter was granted to the Globe
Cotton Mills of Rock Hill, the third
establishment of the kind organized in
that pushing town. Of the capital
| stock of ?100,000, $50,000 bis been
; subscribed, and 20 per cent, of the latter
amount has been paid in. The directors
are John R. London, W. L.
Roddey, A. F. Ruff, A. E. Smith, A.
Friedheim, J. N. Trainer and W. E.
Trainer. John R. London is president
and pro tern secretary and treasurer.
Corral Lee, white, of Wadesboro, N.
C., was arrested at Rock Hill charged
I with counterfeiting and passing counx?
TT? -u?,3 ? i,:,. ?
i/?riezb iiiuiiuj. xxc uau. uu mo o,
discharge from the North Carolina penitentiary.
At a recent meeting of the executive
committee of the State Agricultural and
[ Aiecnauicai society aaamonai premiums
were offered for South Carolina
raised and owned colts 2 to 3 years old,
trotting in harness, and also 1 to 2 year
old colts and colts under 1 year old,
trotting halter led by the side of running
or trotting mate. These races will
be run in the arena.
GEORGIA.
Charles Ellison, whowas indicted for
murder on his own confession of having
having caused a wreck on the Georgia
Midland road, near Warm Springs, last
May, in which the engineer of the train
was killed, has just been convicted of
involuntary manslaughter by a Merriweather
county jury. The maximum
penalty for this offense is three years
imprisonment. Local branches of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
have passed resolutions denouncing the
verdict as a bid to train wreckers to
continue their deadly work.
fipnrcriji "PVirmer'a Alliance hinds its
w,vV.0.?,
members to demand 121-2 cents for
uplands, and 20 cents for sea island
catton.
A dispatch from Home, Ga., says
tliat Rev. Sam Jones is ill. Dr. B. S.
Holmes, president of the Georgia Medical
Association, says the evangelist is
overworked. He says that Mr. Jones
will recover his health, with a few weeks
rest.
Fire at Macon destroyed two buildings
ok Cherry St., the one a furniture
manufactory and the other a carriage
shop.Gov.
D. H. Hill, of New York, will
visit the Atlanta Exposition.
Monday evening, the body of a negro
boy was found in a hole of water in
Ogechee river below Colclough's bridge,
about four miles west of Crawfordsville
rmr?r> it TYrftVPfl tn lir?
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the body of William Copeland, a 14year-old
boy of Buck Copeland.
M. S. Belknap, general manager of
the Georgia Central railroad, has resigned
to become manager of a bank in the
City of Mexico.
PLOBIDA/
A Jasper special says: ''About midnight
on Tuesday night, as a party of
railroad construction men were asleep
in a camping.car about a mile from here,
three negro gamblers entered the ear,
awoke the men ana aemanaea a game 01
poker. The men refused, making excuse
that card playing was against orders.
The aegroes then began to curse
and make a disturbance generally. One
of the gamblers was armed with a Winchester
rifle. Meeting witli strong resistance
in their attack they jumped
from the car and then fired upon it with
the rifle and guns. Sidney Thomas,
one of the railroad gang, was instanuy
killed and three others were seriously
wounded. The doctor says one of them
will die. Bill Gates, of the attacking
party, is under arrest. Tom Rush and
Charley Polk escaped/' Jasper is in
Hamilton county, not far from the Georgia
line and about eighteen miles north
of the Suwanee River. The camping
car was on the line of the Georgia boutnern
and Florida Railroad, now being
built southward to Palatka.
At a meeting of the Florida Tobacco
Growers' Association at Quincy, Fla.,
Judge Pulling, .of Madison, in an able
address, favored the Phillips process,
and stated that he had been offered
from eighty cents to one dollar per pound
for tobacco cured by that process. Every
member present, excepting one, favored
the adoption of the Phillips process.
VTRfrTNTA.
Conrad N. Jordan and Henry "W.
Ford, trustees under the first mortgage
of the Norfolk Southern Railway company,
filed a bill in the circuit court of
the United States in Norfolk, for foreclosure
of said first mortgage.
Harrisonburg was visited by a cloudburst
Tuesday, and parts of the town
were badly Hooded. In. Main street
boats could have been used for a time.
There was much damage from Hooded
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CClUtli, UlU.
The equestrian statue of Gen. Robt
E. Lee will probably be unveiled in
Richmond, Va., on December 5. The
statue is now being cast in bronze in
Paris, and will be ship])ed about the
last of October. It is expected that
military compauies and other organizations
will be present from every State
in the South, and that Richmond will
have within her limits on tliat occasion
more people mail at any wine 111 jul-i
history.
Iiev. J. W. Blincoe, one of the most
prominent ministers of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, died at Ashland,
Sunday.
Governor Lee has appointed delegates
from Virginia to the National
Farmer's Congress to be held at Montgomery,
Ala., November 13th.
At Tliaxton's, near Roanoke, Saturday
evening, an engine backed on a buggy
in which Capt W. II. Frye and his
daughter, Miss Katie, were seated. The
horse was killed, the bucrcrv torn to
pieces, and tlie occupants dragged some
distanc(*aud rendered insensible. The
engine approached in the darkness -without
ringing the bell for the crossing, as
required by law, and Capt. JFryc
brought suit.
The body of an unknown white man
about 23 years of age waifound in Oakland
cemetery, Richmona, Sunday with
n nistnl hnll in his.hfftd finrl thfl wesiwn
iii his hand. A note was found in his
pocket saying that he was of sound
mind, and that he had $30 to pay funeral
expenses. The money was found on
his person.
OTHER STATES.
Robert T. Scarborough, a prominent
merchant at Purvis, Miss., and bondsman
for Sullivan, Kilrain, and llenaud,
is dead. His death will necessitate making
a new bond in each case.
Two men were killed and five others
severely inju red by falling slate in one
of tlic mines of tlie Eureka Company,
near Oxmoor, Ala., Monday niglit.
Jerry Dennis, a prominent young business
man of Birmingham, Ala., who is
<]uite wealthy, was married to Miss Addie
Heydinger, a society lady. The
next day a young woman^Nnamed !Nora
Thompson liad Dennis arrested on u
warrant charging him with seduction,
and she will also bring a civil action
against him for breach of promise. She
claims to have been engaged to him
for several months. Dennis's bride is
completely prostrated oy tne suock.
The British steamer Statesman, Capt.
Edgf.r, from Liverpool, arrived at New
Orleans. She brought the Captain and
crew of eleven man of the Portuguese
hark Nobreza bound from Lisbon for
Brunswick, La., in ballast. The crew
were taken oil their vessel on Sept. 11.
The bark had encountered a hurricane
An n ?nrl ('. inrl w.is flismnstrr!
sprung a leak, and the pumps choked
and broke. She also lost all her fresh
water, the casks having been stove in.
The crew were without water for six
days, and had but a small quantity of
provisions, she being forty one days out.
She was built in 1864 and owned in Lisbon.
J. C. Dillenger a printer, twenty-four
years old and unmarried, committed
suicide at Birmingham, Ala., by taking
morphine. He had been drinking
heavily for scv^al weeks, and this was
his third attempt at suicide. Dillinger
went there about three months ago from
Fort Smith, Ark., where his parents re
side.
HIS WHITE CAPTIVE.
A Negro Keeps a Pretty Girl Under Lock
and Key for Over a Tear.
New Orleans, La.?Louise SchoewtnUnv
n nK/i+frr ArtltT 1 tl VAOtO
iLUiiid, a piciLjr viuuuv/f vuij iv j VMI^I
old, has been missing from her parents"
residence for over a year. All efforts to
find the missing girl proved futile until
Tuesday morning, when Sergeant Kenny
was Informed that a young white
girl was kept a prisoner in a room in the
rear of the barber shop on Felicity
street, between Dryades and Baronne,
by a negro named Gus Reed. The police
repaired to the place, and finding it
closed, broke open the door in the rear
of the shop..
As the door swung back a horrible
sight greeted the eves of the Sergeant.
Standing in the centre of the room was
the frail form of a white girl, her nakedness
being hid by a tattered and torn
undergarment. Her face was as pale as
death, while her eyes gleamed in a most
unnatural manner. As the Sergeant entered
the room she rushed toward him
with a wild cry, and clung trembliugly
to liis arm, repeating a half dozen times
in piteous tones, "Save me, save me.''
Kenny attempted to console the poor
creature, but her mind being somewhat
unbalanced, she could not at once un
derstanci wnat ne meant, it v."as oniy
after repeated assurances that slie was
now in friendly hands that the unfortunate
girl realized her position and become
cjuiet. She was much emaciated
and had a look of terror on her still
pretty face.
The policeman immediately secured
clothing, and upon questioning the girl
learned that she had been locked up in
the room by Roed for about a year, and
was compelled to live with him as his
wife. Serjeant Kennv immediately
O ? w ~
sougjit Reed, found him in tlie shop,
and placed him under arrest. The culprit
was taken to the station and charges
preferred against him.?N. Y. Sun.
Prost and Snow.
The reports of temperature to the
Signal Service Bureau indicate that frosts
fell the last few nights over a large area.
The States and portions of States in<1*/*
frAct W*lf.
Kansas, Northern Missouri, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska and
points further north.
Iron Mountain, Mich.?The - first
snow of the year for this section of the
upper peninsula fell here Tuesday afternoon.
It was only a sprinkling, but was
followed by a bitterly cold wave.
OVER THE WIRES.
IMPORT AM' NEWS FEOM ALL POEiri^
.
: ' V;
fla+.hprpfl , nrif] flrnirlA-nsftfl Tri Rpadahlft
Style for the Public,.
* - . . i
A perceptible shock of earthquake;
was felt Tuesday afternoon at Sants
Anna, Cal. -xt-j . ' : - ?
The heaviest rainfall in years was ex-,
pcrienccd iu Western Pennsylvania
Tuesday.
A' southbound Central freight :
train was derailed near A"int&, Ga.v !
about midnight. It ran into ? cross-tie :
placed across the track. The engineer,
firemen and a brakeman were killed, y
0 The New Jersey Republican ..State
onveniion at Trenton nominated Gen- i
eral E. Grubb, for Governor. The platform
endorses the Harrison Administration.
Tom Allen, ex-champion pugilist of
the world, Tom Kelly, Dan Daly, Ed.
TTV'llv Ar+ifi "Flint anfl filiarlffi Tlalv. 1
who took part in the Daly-^clly prize
fight in Lincoln county, Missouri, two
years ago, the largest prize fight of its
class on record, have been arrested and
-were taken to Troy, Mo., for trial.
Steve Brodie jumped from the "bark of
a tight-rope waiker on a cable into the
artificial lake at Beyerles Park, Ohio,
Sunday, a distance of 100 feet. Fire
thousand spectators were present. ,
Rev. J. W. Bliccoe, a prominent minister
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, died in Ashland, Va., Sunday.'".
At the fifth annual reunion of Mauli
tit Tr? -a,.*.
uy ?? itu TV llCCIlUg, Tf > cu,
urday, JohnW. Mason, Commissioner of <
Internal Revenue, declared himself in
favor of a service pension for every hon- :
orably discharged Union soldier."
Mrs. Lizzie Brcnnan, of Holyoke,
Mass., is on trial for the murder of her
son in June last by giving him arsenic^
Delhi Walker, a beautiful and acccsriiplished
girl, aged 19 years, committed
suicide by drowning at LaugdonvK. H.
The cause of Miss Walker's suicide is a
mystery. She was an intimate friend of \]
Miss Skinner, of Keene,and[Miss Walker ;
of Springfield, Vt., both of whom committed
suicide last winter. All three
young women formerly attended the
Vermont Academy together.
Frank Pine, who was known all over
Europe and the "United States as one of
the smoothest confidence men in the
business, died at the Windsor Hotel,
Dourer, Col.
Advices by the steamer Wainiu announce
the death of the Queen of the
Tonga Islands.
Gen. Ripley, President of the Raritan
PiPAr il flnm-nornr flip
directors, "William Ilendriekson, the"general
freight agent, Thomas* Hussey,
a contractor, and William F. Fisher, a
wealthy brick manufacturer of Sayre
ville, have been indicted for murder.
The three last named men were supposed <
to be in charge of the men who attempted
to lay a truck across Edwin Furman's :
land near New Brunswick by which a
riot was created and one man killed sev- '<
montlis ago. 1
A mArrr ofo/irArro ^ooccr?rfci,c <
bUV UVV CtVVlttgV ?
landed by the steamer Edam at Castle :
Garden,. N. Y., are more than .110 Arabs.
They were detained to await the Collector's
decision. The Edam also brought
over Ethel Grodzinski, a Polish woman
of middle age, with a six-year-old
daughter. She says she has been married
l>y letter to a Mormon who lines at 0?den,
Utah, to which place she is bound.
The ball given iu the City of Mexico ]
in honor of the birthday of President
Diaz was largely attended. The anniversary
of Mexico's independence was
celebrated throughout that country.
Seven thousand soldiers apd rural guards
paraded, under command of Gen. Jose
Cebalios, Governor of the Federal district.
There were pyrotechnic displays,
and immense crowds filled the streets
cheering for Gen. Diaz as the "apostle
of peace."' i3
Edward Early, captain, Lawrence i
Steigliter, pipenian, Thomas Whalen, j
John Monahan, Patrick Foley and Frank j
Bess were the firemen killed by a falling .
1 wall during the recent big fire at Louisville.
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THE SIMP30IT DEY DOCK ,
A Suceesssul Test and Pormal Opening of ]
the Portsmouth Dock.
The new dock at Portsmouth Va., was [
inspected by the'naval committee Tues- ;
day. The committee, consisting of
Capt. IJruce, Naval Constructor Steele (
and Civil Engineer Maxsom, of the '
Washington navy yard, report that the
dock containing 24 feet of water, was
pumped dry in sixty five minutes:, no '
vessel being in it. The drainage pumps .
delivered seven thousand and sixty gal- ;
Ions per minnte, or three and one-half [
times the capacity required by the con- j
tract.
Large parties from "Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia and other points at- j
luuueu I lie JLU1 JLUO.1 If vv?MVM
day, after -which a banquet was served
at the Portsmouth navy yard.
The Use of Hollow Bricks. ~*r !
One or the new features in building j
in New York city is the use of hollow ,
bricks for partitions and even outside (
waits. These bricks are so moulded j ^
that when a wall is perfectly plumb, youj <
can. drop a pebble right down in the; ;
wall, there being hu'ndreds of hollow ;
spaces. Walls thus built are said to re: ;
sist heftt and coldffar better than the i
solid kind, niicl they are about 25 per i
cent, cheaper.. I have seen sawdust sub- <
..x4.^,1 -T^ .. 1*? rv m A|4qT OTlfl j
!)tlLUtCU 1U1 Dduu J.U uiaaua^ v??
tin; practice is getting- quite common.'
The gfeat saving of weight makes sawdust
mortar very appropriate for plastering,
but time will have to decide whether
anything can be as durable as the regulation
article.-*?New York Gratihic.
Virginia Colored Convention.
Thomas A. J. Clemens, editor of the
Xiitinnal Tiuuan or<ran of the colored
people in Alexandria, Va., lias issued a call
for a convention of the independent <
colored citizens of Virginia, to be held
at Alexandria, Oct. l. The call declares
the condition of the colored people in
the State of Virginia politically, indus
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| umuv iiuvi skjisLuuj w ?v^ ?v?j muwmv.w I
I factory. It is signed by a committee of ,,
seven. Mr. Clemens says he has assur- i
ance that at least seventy delegates will
be in attendance. The convention will
endorse one of the" candidates for Governor
now in the field.
PBOGEESS' IK SOUTHERN SCHOOLS
Colored Children Eeceive Equal Gonsidera"
tdoh with the Whites.
* "Washington. D. C.?The annual report
of N. H, R. Dawson, Commissioner
or .^aucauon, nas oeen. suDmittea to tne
Secretary of the Interior. It shows that 1
during the year 179,901 documents were 1
distributed. The library has been enlarged
by the acquisition of 2,500 vol- 1
umes and 10,000 pamphlets, making the !
total number in the library 23,500 vol-: 1
umes aud 90,000 pamphlets. The mu-'a
seum connected with the bureau includes20,000
articles. From an analysis of the
statistics of public schools for the decade 1
1876?77 to 1886-87,. it appears, says the
report, that the growth of the system
outstripped during that period the
growth of population, the excess of the
increase of enrollment over the increase
in population, 6 to 14 years of age, being
1.6 per cent. This gain is attributed to i
Pnp TirnoTP.os of the rmblie sehools in the i
. i . r?- mr
two Southern sections, ana more espe- j
daily in the South central division.
"Here the increase of enrollment," .
says the report, "shows an excess over
the increase of population probably never ,
before paralleled in a country so long ,
settled." Since 1876-77 the increase of ,
enrollment in the public schools of the
South has been C3 per cent. In regard
to the value of statistics exhibiting the
condition of State school system the re- :
port says their usefulness is greatly im- ;
paired by want of uniformity in the
work of the different States. "Their
sentiment in favor of free schools sup*
ported by public fund," says the Com- '
missioner, "is becoming each year more
universally prevalent. The public school .
systems of the Southern States have been ;
undergo^g an unprecedented develop- .
ment under laws adopted in each case
to local circumstances, and are now
nil rm a Twrma
nent basis. Colored children are apportioned
an equal share of the scjuooI funds
(except in the case of Bel aware), and
their schools are kept open as long and
under as"w$U-paid teachers as those of
the white children.
~ The funds for the support of these
schools are furnished mainly by the
^hite inhabitants, and after making due
allowance for all the sums that have
Ueen furnished for the education of the
negroes through private sources of br ;volence
and through taxes raiser' "^y
themselves, it may well be said th?._.Jhe
children of those once held in servitude
in the South are being educated by the
sons of their former masters.
The conditions affecting public education
in the South, the report says,
make it necessary to maintain two separate
school systems. Their population
is made up of two distinct races and
colors. In this section the statistics
show that 64 per cent, of the white pop^ _
uiation oi school age are enrolled, wwie
but 53 per cent, of the colored population
of school a^c are enrolled. In the
District of Columbia alone does the colored
enrollment, as compared with the
population, exceed that of the white enrollment
of school age..
A considerable- portion of the report is
devoted to education in Alaska, and the
Commissioner recommends that all the
scnools now in operation be brougnt ;
more closely under Government control. .
KAOE WAE IN ILLINOIS. |
1
Utt/ro Arrested for Knocking Down a 3
j iidge?The Negroes Organize and *
Eelease the Prisoner. 1
Lawrenceville, Ills.?A race war \
between the whites and blacks l
Dccurred here Saturday night. A few
Jays ago a St. Louis negro named Slick
:ame to town and Saturday afternoon in'
i quarrel with a white man attacked him
with, a knife. The latter escaped after '
receiving two wounds, and then Slick '
lashed down the street-slashing at every 1
yne. Judge Barnes, of the county ^
lourt, ordered the negro to stop. The 1
negro attacked the judge, but the latter }
retaliated by knocking him down. The 1
aesrro was then disarmed and arrested. <
Meanwhile, the blacks, hearing ef the 1
irrcst, determined to rescue the prisoner. I
A. few white men rallied around the j
judge. There was a hard fight in which ]
the negroes were l)eaten back and all 3
the ring leaders arrested.
The prisoners were taken to the coun- <
ty jail and the sheriff and his deputies }
wore ordered by the judge to guard the ,
building. The blacks quickly organ- :
izad and made an attack on the jail. The ]
sheriff was ordered to fire on them, but .
refused, and the negroes forced their .
way into the jail and rescued the prison- j
ers. Juage uarnes organized tne wnues
and attacked the blacks at the jail. '
There was a bloody fight, in -which ]
pistols, knives and clubs -were used. 1
Judge Barnes -was cut and shot, but his !
wounds are not fatal. Dr. Johnson, Ed. '
Lamb, and three other white men, were 1
seriously hurt. Two negroes were shot 1
and half a hundred heads- were broken. J
rhe whites won, and the ring leaders 1
were again put in jail and-a heavy guard
placed around the building. The jciot )
lias created creat excitement. ^
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Cotton Bagging, <
A dispatch from Greenville, Ala., ]
jays: The members of.-the Farmers' i
A-lliance in this portion'of the cotton 3
belt of Alabama are aiding to break ;
3own the jute/trnst; "whi^ "'S being an
tagonized in every j)^ >e State by 1
the introduction of ?giDg a-s a 1
substitute for baling _ The latter i
system is a new one; ^u'the farmers are,,
as yet unftble to prepare the material on 3
account of the failure of the factories to
3upply.the demand. Increased facilities are
being rapidly adopted for turning it .
out, and before long cotton bagging
will entirely supplant jute, notwithstanding
that a loss of 50 cents or
per bate is sustained "by those who use
cotton bagging. In some sections pine
straw" is being -woven into bagging,
winch is saia to dc mucn superior to
jute. It is not inflammable, and Tvill
protect cotton better than any covering
yet brought into use.
Slain in the Prize Eing,
A St. Louis, Mo., special says:
Thomas W. Jackson, a well known
young man of this city, and Ed. Ahein,
? clever light pugilist, engaged in a
prize fight in Daly's sporting resort in
this cityT Eleven rounds were fought,
and at the end of the eleventh round
Jackson was led fainting to his chair. .
The fighting was desperate. Jackson
died in a few minutes after being taken .
to his chair, and before medical atten
tion could be secured. Ahein was ar
rested.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
Robert S. Terrill, of Massachusetts,
a colored man, was appointed a chief, of
division in the fourth auditor s office by
Secretary "WTndom.
Secretary Tracy has received a grace
tui reply xo nis telegram congratulating
ex-Secretary Whitney on the remarkable
performance of the cruiser Ealtimore.
President Harrison commuted the. sentence
of W. D. Spearman^ district of
South Carolina, convicted of violating
the internal revenue laws, "to nine
months. He was sentenced, February,4
1889, to IS months, imprisonments
The sentence of Dr. Burke Pred.dy, of
the eastern district of'Tennessee, conracted.
of violating trie pension laws,
was commuted to one year. Jie -was
sentenced in April, 1889, to two years'
imprisonment.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap- <
pointed Edward G. Haywood, of North
Carolina, to be chief of the judiciary
division of the First Comptroller's office.
Secretary Tracy received the bills for
the seventh payment on the cruiser, (No.
5) the San Francisco, building in that
city for the government, representing
$128,520. They will undoubtedly be
approved.
Recently the Indian Eights Associal:
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tiuu miuruieu uic oeurc tarj ui vvai tuat
it -would purchase a large tract of land
in North Carolina and provide homes on
it for Geronimo and his' Apache Indians,
who arc now confined at Mount Vernon
barracks, Ala,, if the Secretary -would
agree to the removal of the renegades.
Secretary Proctor informed that association
that he would agree to its proposition.
An agent is now in North Carolina
to secure the land, and when that
is done the removal will take plsce.
.HU LIlULLK JtUil iLLJL
Colored Representative Mclver to Be
"Married Before De Bredren.'
Atlanta, Ga.?Aged Representative
Mclver, the colored State Legislator, is
looking for a wife. "When he finds a
mate he proposes to be married in a
novel manner. His wife died on the
11th of last July, "but his home looks so
lonely that he is determined to get him
another partner. He heard of a very
likely girl down in Macon and went
there Sunday to see how she would suit.
When he was asked Monday about
his trip he replied: "I saw the girl,
but nothing more than a pleasant talk
passed between us."
4 'Do you think you will ask her to
change her name ?"
"Well, I don't answer that question.
I will only say I am casting about to
find some one who will suit me.''
"If you'll get married, Mac'! said Representative
Clifton. of Savannah, /Til
give you the finest beaver in Atlanta."
"I shall invite the General Assembly
to the wedding, sir" replied the old man,
bowing low and smiling in a way that
showed to full advan tage his white teeth.
"Yes, sir, when I have found the woman,
I intend to be married on the floor of
this House. I shall get one of the clergymen
in the House to perform the ceremony,
and every member shall be invited.
I will ask the Speaker to occupy
bis seat, and I will take my stand in
front of his desk with the woman of my
choice, and there, facing my brcd'ren of
the House, I will once more assume the
matrimonial yoke. I believe in doing
2verything in order, sir."
"You are right, and we'll all be
there," replied several members, while
the old man resumed his seat, his white j
tiandkerchief, and his palmetto fan.
^ A
Central American Despot. v j
TO tne stuaeni ox metapnysics me
iharacter of Rufino Barrios, the despot
>f Guatemala, must necessarily appear as.
m engima, from its many strange contrarieties
and inexplicable moods. He
was a dove and an adder by turns, and,
like the satyr in the fable, could blow
iot and cold with the same breath. On
3ne day lie was a Caligula in his ferocity,
trtiile tie next found Mm practicing the
Christian virtues of forbearance Mid forgiveness.
To-day he would laugh, Nerolike,
in an orgy of blood, while to-morrow
he might break the shackles and set at
liberty his most inveterate foes. Strange,
tvayward, and many-sided, he was withal
i man with a crude idea of justice, and
certainly aimed at the material advance- I
ment of Ms country. But a summary of
his life, taking into consideration all of
its lights and shadows, will lead to the
inevitable conviction that he was a very
bad man who was domineered by his
grosser instincts. His unpublished history
is written in the blood of 600 victims
among his own people, who have
suffered death to^satisfy his supicions and
caprices. An attempt to bring out the
true facts of his life by a young lawyer of
this city was suppressed by the government
as entailing a scandal upon the
nation.
He allowed 110 man or set of men to
stand in the way of Ids ambition, and
upon bare rumor often ordered a citizen
bo be shot without a moment's warning
or shadow of trial. Not less than two
hundred citizens of Guatemala now lie
in death's embrace, by his order, who
* ? n
never knew eveu tne cnarges prererreu
igainst them. At one time a rebellion
was brewing in one of the northern districts,
and, without knowing who were
the ringleaders, but to spread terror in ^
the department and quell the uprising,
sight men were selected, more or less at
random, and shot.
We ^countered the indubitable authority
of this heiuons order of Barrios,
ind saw men who had read it.?Chicago
Neics.
Peculiar Names for Railroad Cars.
A Port Jervis investigator has learned
that Erie men have a nomenclature for all
kinds of cars and engines, and that these
names extend over the entire road and
branches. ' 'Black Marias" are Pennsylvania
coal cars, which are painted a jet
black. The TVotten engines with the
* " "? ?11-J in*
ClOUDie carjs are caueu. -v_-<iuiei ui
Hog Scaldere." The various classes of
coal cars are named as follows: Long
Johns, Exclusives, Standard, Black
EEarias and Jimmies. The "Long Johns"
are the gondola-shaped cars with sides,
"Black Marias" are mentioned above,
"Exclusive" are the twenty-ton cars ana
are used exclusively for the Delaware and
Hudson coal, Standards" are twentyfive
ton cars and are the present Erie
standard coal cars, and "Jimmies" are
the four-wheeled dumps, of which there
are but few in use.?Toicanda {Rnn.) ,
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A
! ft ATT,"ROAD OONSTBUOTIOH.
Hew Sections of the Sonth Being Entered
By the Iron Horse.
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Birmingham neo?le are becoming in
terested in electricity as a. motive power
for street railroads. . . .
English capitalists are contemplating,
the completion of the Carolina, KnoxviHe
& Western Railroad from* Green1]
ville, S. C;, to Knoxville.
vyvci i,uuu uuinua aie ttiicauj at win*.
on the extension of the (Jeorgia, Carolina
& Northern Railroad between Chester,
S. C., to Athens, Ga., contracts , for
which were recently le4*?_
It is reported tfeaf the road-bed now
being graded to Llano, Texas, will be
finished within 90 days, thus making
possible the active developments of the
Rpcaunifir iyta ^enncifi r\f fhaf wMinn
Mr, C. P. Huntington, who ' recently
purchased the Chattaro! Railroad of
Ohio, with a view to its extension, will
shortly, it is understood,, commence
work on a 135-mile road from Richardson,
Ky., to Pocahontas, Ya., passing
through the Big Sandy Valley ana
across the Cumberland mountains at the
Breaks of Sandy.
It is reported that work will shortly
be commenced on a new railroad from
Cumberland Gap (Middlesborough) to
South Pittsburgh, Tenn. Should such
a road be constructed, it will run
throuffh a rich coking coal country and
down the Sequachee valley, creating a
new line for shipment of coke from the
Middlesborough district to a number of
Southern furnaces. Great activity ijL
the manufacture in railroad construction
throughout that entire section is now absolutely
certain. - '
The Norfolk and "Western Railroad
are building to meet the Capt Fair and
Yadkin Valley at or near Mt. Airy, N C;
This new line of 65 miles, now under
contract to George T. Mills, will form
A/vf in/* in
lug xuuiv xu a tmvu^u auu^v
by which. Pocatontas can reach Eastern
and Central Carolina, and already some
of the railroads are getting iready to
change their locomotives from wood to
coal burners. A large section of country
will secure cheap coal through this
*ew line.
How the Coreans Mourn.
The Coreans go into very extensive
.1 r - i rrrt i.! J.
mourning lor tneir inenaa. mey mue
their faces from the public gaze and dress
in sackcloth. Their mourning costume
is not at all picturesque, but it is curious.
The hat, stiff with starch, is of coarse
hemp cloth and resembles somewhat an
inverted bowl or old-fashioned soup
tureen. Under the hat is -worn a head
band and a cap. The hat, the cap and
the head band are worn together the day
of the death, aiflEe'funeral and at the
expiration of the first and second years
of mourning. At other times during the
mourning period the head band alone is
won. The mourning robe is made of a
coarse hemp cloth similar to that of which
theliat and screen are made, but with ex- ;
tremely large meshes. The back is a
wide straight piece, two gores extend
from the armpits down and the front is a
straight piece and a gore. It has a rolling
collar three feet long and sleeveseighteen
inches wide, cut square. The
The robes are of a vellowish-brown and
white in color, and at the bottom they
measure nine and one-half feet in circumference.
Over this is worn a robe of.
finer quality and slashed up at the sides.
The sleeves are wider also. After the
' death of a father a girdle of Lamp rope is
worn. If it is a mother that is dead a
hemp cloth sash is worn. A variety of
hats are worn for mourning. A screen
hemp cloth is always held in front of the
facc by a mourner. It is considered a
<rrcat nflFensA tn lnnk rntn the face of a
mourner. Before, missionaries -were permitted
in Corea they used to steal into
the country by disguising themselves as
mourners.? Washington Star.
k A Lake's Freak. <
A strange phenomenon is reported
from Harrison Lake, and one that is
?^ ^1* A A! <3 vtATTI
^uzziiiig mt; uiaua vi mc v:ucdi uatigators
of these waters, as well as the
Indians who have lived on its shores for
many years. The water in the lake has
continued to rise steadily for two weeks,
and during that time has risen three and
a half feet. This is unaccountable, as
there has not been a drop of rain during
the past month, and the rush of water
from the mountain lakes is not greater
than usual, besides which the Fraser
River lias been falling slowly all this
time. Of course there must be a reason
for this singular phenomenon, but it cannot
be discovered. Any of the river
steamers can now pass up Harrison .River
and into the lake without difficulty,
while a month ago only the smaller vessels
nould find water enough to float 1
them.?British Columbian.
"When the Eing Drinks.
Whenever King Dua, of Africa, writes
S. R. Werner in his book, "A Visit to
Stanley's Rear Guard," took a drink of
palm wine, or ate his meals, one of his
wives produced a hard, dry nut, about
the size of an egg, with one end cut off,
ana tne insjae nonowea out. ims nai ue
slowly placed on tlie great toe of his left
foot; this done the palm wine or food
was placed before him, and a slave boy
came and 6tood behind him with a handbell.
Every time he took a mouthful of
food or a drink of massanga or palm
wine, he wrapped the bottom of the
canoe with tho nut on his great toe,
while a tinkle on the bell announced to
all whom it might concern that Dua, of
Ikoluniru. was eating or drinking, as the
case might be. He went through the
same ceremony when smoking, taking a
tg pull at Ms pipe for every map of
toe and tinkle on his bell.
The Two Cleopatra's Needles.
There were two so-called Cleopatra's
needles. They stood originally at Heliopolis,
in front of the great Temple of
the Sun. After remaining: there 1600
years, they "were floated down the Nile
by the Romans and re-erected in 23 B. C.
One of them was presented by Mahomet
Ali to the British Government, and it
now stands on the banks of the Thames,
in Loudon. The other was presented by
the Khedive to the city of New York,
and in 18S0 it was brought ever and set
up in Central Park. It is 70 feet high,
7 feet squar^^Jh^i^^gid weighs 196
SCIENTIFIC AND Efl)lJSTRIAL.^
. Schemes are being devised to cook
with, electricity.
I An ore mine Has. jxjst been. openedin
Michigan. 106 feet deep.
A Ww? W/lfQli /van -
Jcaich 1000 flies in an hour. ./>; flj
! The largest swing drawbridge in the
jworld is'at New London, Conn..
| The^gMlbh containing 281 cubic inches
pa the stahd^ umttjf'measure.
f -Gfee-?g^on of pirierwaiier Wc^hs nearsly
eight and a half^oand^SEVOrdupois.
They have a "Drop a nickel in the
'slot and get yotffsphotogrkph" machine at
; German experimenters have^fcowthai serious
blood maladies may be transmitted ~ m
by the mosquito. - ,
A steel air-ship is talked aL It is to
be-built on the vacuum principle, and\ *
Will cost $220,000.
|. The annual production of chemicals in.
France is said to hare reached the great
value- of $300,000,000.
! mi. i_r i L-i. l i.
iue icugui vi uic turuxuu traua. va?i?
from 300 yards to about 200 miles, tea
average being 24.79 miles. \
Entomologists have observe! the larvae ?
of the dragon-fly swallowing undeveloped
mosquitoes in large numbers:
It has been stated that the lamented;
Father Damien attributed his leprosy to
the inoculation of an abrasion in the
scalp through the agency of flies.
. The largest engine for driving machin- __J
ery in a steel rail mil J nasjnst beenepectea
in Newcastle, England; it is of 10,600;
horse piower"; the crank shaft is twenty
one inches in diameter.
An attempt has recently been made at H
Portland, Oregon, to increase the somewhat
limited variety of native song birds \ J
in this-country by the importation of
several varieties of German birds.
- An Austrian botanist, Professor Peyritsch,
has discovered that double fiowem
maybe artificially produced by mites,; ;
and believes tnat eacn nower nas its pecu-, :
liar "mite-parasite which ^ives rise to .the
doubling.
The boiling points of potassium and
sodium have been satisfactorily determined
by an English physicist by .placing
the metals in a hollow iron- balL^prrounded
with a screen of fire clay and: <
iieated with a blow-pipe. ^
A process has been invented by means
of which photographs can be printed al- .
most as fast as a newspaper, and without ^ I
dependence on sun or light. They are. ^^*1
said to be of the first quality. That, of
course, would make photographs much'
cheaper. [
Professor Babbage, of calculating-ma-[
chine fame, also invented for his amuse-;
ment a "miracle "machine,"' to, prove:
that, given a certain number of revoke; -. ^ J
tions,. "coincidences" occur at regular
intervals with an mfalhbihty that de-. "
prives "chance'' of much of the meaning
usually attached to the word. I
An immense glass bubble or globe; ?v^j??8
which has been exhibited at the Paris J
Exposition is oyer five feet in diameter,:
with a capacity of 1950 imperial quarts.' _ '
and weighs forty-eight and a half pounds.;
It is^aspure as crystal and without a' j
blemish, and is a work of French glass-; - J
hlnws>r? Rj?id in hnve never been enualed.: ' . flj
Chief Nafehes and the Sign Language.! j
Although there are seventy-three dif-j
ferent languages and about 800 dialects'
I spoken by the American Indians, the!
sign language is. equally understood by all'
j the tribes, j Chief Nafcphes of the. Piuta
tribe is an adept in the "sign language.";
j In "Washington city, sojne years ago, he
; held a consultation by signs with' the best
experts, in which he gave an account of
the troubles existing-at-that time with
some bands of renegade Indians up near
the Oregon line, describing a, trip he J
I made to the camp of the hostiles. Natches I
crtTiVtraalm/xif "snlff-Arir "Tirmor nf llftV* . 1
ing had his talk published in fhe Govern- , M
ment reports on these matters, with a full ' '
explanation of every sign he.used in con*
veying the intelligence sought from him.'
He was highly spoken of by the Govern- .
j ment experts for his great knowledge ol
| and readiness in the Indian sign lan*
! guage.?Virginia (ifor.) Enterprise, a
I German. Frontier Boundary Posts. v
The Franco-German frostier ruajSC^"^"?' " ^
i through the Yosges is bein^ arefully *
rectified by officials from the two coun- ji I
tries. In some places the "frontier line
passes through such dense forests that ex- ;
tensive clearings have to be made to
mark the divisions and. erect the frontier
posts. The Germans have put Tip 200
posts, strong iron columns cemented into
jgranite beds so as to prevent any" m&Ii:dous
removal of the boundary mark. A?~ - ,...aj
;the top of each post is a big disk bear- ^
jing the Hohenzollern eagle in black, sur- lq
jrounded by red and white bands to con> ^
plete the national colors, and inscribed
4 German Empire!"?Few York Post. i
An lndnstrioos Wliittler. j 1
There is a man in Biddeford,' 3?e. y who- has
whittled so industriously- and -skillfully
or eleven years as to bring himself
into notice. Among tne products or nis
jackknifeare a violin'case made of 2937
pieces of wood of 106 different kinds; - S J
a yoke of oxen and a cart, put' together
in a glass jar,with a smalF neck,.-.and
a great number., of really well-made
animals that would sell readily as toys.
"R-nf +"K?< TWaino tpHT nrtt. T4*rf.
any of his creations for love or
as he does nothing but- -whittle
getting together^ large and-interesting
collection.
The Largest Swinging Bridge. i
Queen Victoria recently formally
opened the railway bridge over the river .
Dee in the presence of a large number of. fli
specially invited guests. Re structure, jB
wmcu is biuu 10 ue me iitrge^fc awuigmg
bridge in the world, has a swinging girder
of 287 feet in length, height sixteen
feet, and dear width of span 140 feet, ~~fl
with two fixed spans of 120 feet*- each.
The bridge forms the connecting link between
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire.
and the great northern railway sys?
tems and .North Wales. - -m
The largest County. .
The County of Custer,in Montana, is
the largest county in the United States. .
It contains 13,569,920 acres and is 150 flj
miles long and 125 miles wide.* It is a
place of historic interest, containing as it
rl/voa rto oifa s\f l-lio rtroot of thft
Little Big Horn, where Caster and his
Jgrce were massacred.?Chicago InZer* JM